The release of the Adolescent Man Box study has sharpened the national focus on young men, identity and the pressures shaping adolescent masculinity. The data is compelling, but it also opens a deeper question: how do we understand these pressures in a way that reflects the real, lived experience of boys, especially those in multicultural and minority communities? In this article, I offer a power-centred reading of the Man Box findings, one that takes gender seriously, but si

The Strength to Choose explores the often-overlooked costs young men face when they choose to hold power differently. Drawing on the...